Gerontology: Summaries, Study Notes and Practice Exams - RUG

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Lecture notes Gerontology, Groningen

Gerontology is the study of social, biological and psychological aspects of aging. So, aging is the main focus of this course. This course also takes a neuropsychological approach. It shows a relation between (healthy) aging and changes in the brain. The signs and symptoms of common dementia syndromes, their neurobiological underpinnings and the consequences for the patients and their families will be discussed. Not only dementia but also other neurodegenerative diseases and other diseases related to aging are explained in this course. In our everyday lives, we talk about healthy aging a lot. For example by the media or at your university. This is also shown by the drawing: “Staircase of old age” (Trap des ouderdoms): We start at a point in the bottom (when we are born), then we all climb up. The text underneath the drawing says: we all go up and down. Some go down very softly, others with a bang. With this the painters mean that some are confronted with many diseases, others with none while getting older.As years go by, the distribution of ages is changing. Distribution of ages in 1950 was equal for males and females. There were less people of a higher age and many babies. In 1990 the baby boom generation becomes visible. There is an increase in the number of adults. Also the number of 70 year olds and older is increased by then. Last year (2014) it becomes visible that the baby boom generation is getting older (between...

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Gerontology - B3 - Psychologie - RUG - Oefententamen 2012

The swan-song phenomenon refers to:Until recently a two-stages-of-life viewpoint was prevalent in developmental psychology. According to this perspective, physical and psychological functions were thought to:Unlike formal knoledge, tacit knowlege……Wich theorie gives an ultimate explanation of aging?Cheetah, the famous chimpanzee from the tarzan movie, recently died in a Florida primate sanctuary, ande according to the news he was 80 years old. Wich statement has become more likely because of this information?In which research design are the results NOT influenced by historic developments?According to the ecological model of aging, negative affect and maladaptive behaviour will occur:Diseases that most often cause death are not always the same for younger and older adults. In the European Union we see the following change(s) from 60-85+:What is characteristic for the quasi-experimental approach in conducting aging research?What is de Hayflick number and why is it less important for explaining brain cell aging?In older adults, subjective wellbeing and objective health can be quite different. Genetic differences may play an important role. Which statement best describes the findings in the literature?What is presbyopia?According to Parker and Thorslund, health trends in the older population suggest that a concept of general morbidity is not sufficient. Which statement best fit their conclusion:Which working memory processes are least impaired by primary aging?Older adults perform poorer in free recall memory tests than in cued recall tests. This is primarily caused by:When growing older, people can modify behavior to age succesfully. Which statement fit...